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ε
2593
Ἐπίσσωτρα
rims
… in other lexica. Ultimate sources are scholia and commentary on
Homer,
Iliad 5.725 (web address 1), where the neuter plural headword occurs. Sometimes forms of the word appear without the double-s (e)pi/swtr-), but the …
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ε
2643
Ἐπιστροφάδην
every which way
… Etymologicum Genuinum and Etymologicum Magnum 365.3-5. Less similarly Apollonius Sophistes,
Homeric
Lexicon 74.17; Hesychius epsilon5261. The headword is an adverb, initially
Homeric,
related to epsilon 2644 and epsilon 2645. The probable source of the …
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η
201
Ἠλέκτωρ
beaming
[1] An
Homeric
gloss -- cf. the scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 6.513, where the headword appears -- from the Synagoge (cf. e.g. Photius s.v., Etymologicum Magnum 425.31, Apollonius Sophistes,
Homeric
Lexicon 83.20). Elsewhere this …
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99
99
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86
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86
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79
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79
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71
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71
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62
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62
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60
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60
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56
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56
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51
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50
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47
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47
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43
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43
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38
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38
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37
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37
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29
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29
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27
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27
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24
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24
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13
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13
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10
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10
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9
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9
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4
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4
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55
55
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19
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11
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α
543
Ἀεκήλια
unseemly
The headword, a neuter plural, is extracted from the
Homeric
passage quoted at the end of the entry. [1] This initial glossing is absent, Adler reports, from mss AS. [2] That is, a running …
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α
1290
Ἀλκμανικὸν εἶδος
Alcmanic form
The quotation is
Homer,
Iliad 5.774 (web address 1), and this is from the scholia on the line (cf. Eustathius ad loc.). Alternatively known as the Alcmanic figure. For further examples see the scholia …
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α
3051
Ἀπερωεύς
thwarter
Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon, and cf. the scholia to the passage quoted:
Homer,
Iliad 8.361 (web address 1 below).
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α
3161
Ἀπήμονα
unhurt
… at Photius alpha2411 Theodoridis); and cf. already alpha 3158. [2]
Homer,
Iliad 13.761, with scholion. [3] *ph/qw and panqa/nw are grammarians' hypothetical formations from the aorist e)/paqon (see web address 1 and web address …
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δ
124
Δαίς
feast
[1] Likewise in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon. From the scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 1.225; cf. delta 112, delta 126, delta 127, delta 128. [2] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.24B (1.44 Kaibel), citing the Augustan-age …
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ε
54
Ἐγγείνωνται
they would engender
Homer,
Iliad 19.26 (Achilles on the dead Patroclus), with the gloss from the scholia there; similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon.
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ε
299
Ἐθελήσει
will [not] be willing
… du/namai. See also theta 105, and n. 3 below. [2]
Homer,
Iliad 21.366 (on the discomfiture of the River Xanthus, web address 1), with scholion; cf. omicron 840. [3] Aristophanes fr. 911 Kock, a …
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ε
753
Ἐλαύνωσιν
they drive
Similar entry already in Hesychius and in Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon. [1]
Homer,
Iliad 11.68 (where the phrase occurs in a simile: web address 1), with scholion. For o)/gmos, see also eta 128, omicron 26, …
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ε
1292
Ἔνη καὶ νέα
old and new
… at web address 1. [2] Bernhardy, recognizing this expression as
Homeric
(see next note), attributed this material to an unknown scholion (scholio cuidam). The source which the phrase h(=| a)\n o( toiou=tos bro/tos e)gge/nhtai …
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ε
1425
Ἐν πέντε κριτῶν γόνασι
in (the) laps of five judges
… = 237 Kassel-Austin (which includes 'it lies', as in the
Homeric
line about to be quoted). On Epicharmus see generally epsilon 2766. He was presumably speaking here about his native Sicily, but for 5 …
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ι
108
Ἰδίω
I sweat
… (cf. iota 107, iota 109, iota 117.) Similarly in Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon. [2]
Homer,
Odyssey 20.204 (web address 1).
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ι
361
Ἵνα
in order that, so that
… and Venetus mss) as 'less idiomatic', but the scholion quotes
Homer,
Iliad 7.353 (web address 2), to justify it. On this
Homeric
verse, Walter Leaf comments: "evidently added in order to supply a verb …
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κ
758
Καταρτύσων
intending to prepare
… Laws 808D; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.392; Plutarch, Moralia 38D. [2]
Homer,
Odyssey 11.439 (web address 4). The context is Odysseus' conversation with Agamemnon in the Underworld. In place of do/lon other manuscripts read either …
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κ
2412
Κρῖ
barley
… kappa 2424. Similar glosses in some other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon. [1] For another (applied) sense of kriqh/ see kappa 2416. [1]
Homer,
Iliad 5.196, etc.
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χ
29
Χάλκεος
brazen
… cf. Hesychius (chi69) and the definition given in the Lexeis
Homerikai
[web address 1] published by H. van Thiel, s.v. xa/lkeon. [2]
Homer,
Iliad 5.387, with scholion; and cf. Hesychius chi70: "prison, jar, and …
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χ
536
Χροός
of skin
… from the first quotation given but more probably from another
Homeric
instance, Iliad 4.130; see the scholia there. For the glossing (also in other lexica) cf. chi 546, chi 550. [2]
Homer,
Iliad 13.191 …
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ε
336
Ἔθυσας ἀντιθύσῃ
you sacrificed [so] you should sacrifice in turn
… 10 Bergk (PMG 823 Page); Appendix Proverbiorum 2.10; scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 9.219. [2]
Homer,
Odyssey 9.231.
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η
5
Ἦ
I was, he was
… Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 77 (web address 2), with scholion. [3]
Homer,
Iliad 11.762 (web address 3). [4]
Homer,
Iliad 14.108 (web address 4). [5] Antiphanes fr. 101 Kock, now 290 K.-A.; cf. epsilon 1150. …
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κ
1133
Καύκωνες
Kaukones, Caucones
… all the other peoples of the entry are mentioned in
Homer,
Iliad 10.429 (web address 1). [2] Aelian fr. 280 Domingo-Forasté (282 Hercher). *di/ous is apparently interpreted as another ethnic name, although in
Homer
…
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ι
401
Ἰοβιανός
Jovianus, Jovian
… rather famosa, some at least of which abused Jovian in
Homeric
language. [6]
Homer,
Iliad 3.428 (Helen to Paris). [7]
Homer,
Iliad 3.39 = 13.769 (Hector to Paris). [8]
Homer,
Iliad 2.261-263 (Odysseus to …
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ι
764
Ἶφι
by force
… Same or similar glossing in other lexica and in several
Homeric
scholia; see the references at Photius iota276 Theodoridis. The headword itself is taken to be quoted from
Homer:
see Iliad 1.38, 1.151, etc. …
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ε
2056
Ἐπενήνεον
were piling on, were piling up
… confused entry. The glossing verb sugkateti/qento is drawn from the
Homeric
scholia, but as a gloss for e)pih/|neon ('they were praising', 'they were agreeing to'), rather than for e)penh/neon ('were piling on/up'). See the …
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ε
2713
Ἐπίτονος
backstay
… Photius, Lexicon epsilon1767; and the first part of Apollonius Sophistes,
Homeric
Lexicon 74.30 -- evidently in reference to
Homer,
Odyssey 12.423 (web address 1), where the headword occurs (in the metrically unusual position of …
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ε
3475
Εὐήνορα
well-manning
Same or similar entry in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon. The headword adjective is in the accusative case, as in the two passages from
Homer
cited below. [1]
Homer,
Odyssey 4.622 (web address …
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κ
1285
Κελαινόν
black, murky
[1] The definition comes from scholion D to
Homer,
Iliad 1.303 (cf. 9.6). See also Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon (97.27) and Etymologicum Magnum 501.44; cf. Hesychius' odd melano/n at kappa2135 (linked with the
Homeric
passage …
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κ
2473
Κρόσσας
steps
… (always found in the plural: see LSJ s.v.) kro/ssai. From
Homer:
see next note. Same or similar entry in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa1110 Theodoridis, and next note. [2] Ultimately from …
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α
8
Ἀάσαι
to harm, to infatuate
… lexicography, though it appears as an entry in Apollonius Sophistes,
Homeric
Lexicon 2.5, and is presumably related to such
Homeric
forms as we find at alpha 7. [1] This meaning is unattested for the …
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